outback

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.

   1951 June, W. J. Banks, Flying Doctors of the Outback, The Rotarian, page 23, Communication like this is making a big change in the lives of Australia′s “outback” people.

2. 2
   adj

   Characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of Australia; very remote from urban areas.

   […]the Civil Service Association is not particularly happy with the decision of the Government in regard to rents and the way they will be levied on its members in the more outback country areas.

3. 3
   adv

   To or towards the most remote and desolate areas of Australia.

   If we want this country to develop, we have to depend on men who are prepared to go outback and try to discover new shows.

4. 4
   adj

   inaccessible and sparsely populated

5. 5
   noun

   the bush country of the interior of Australia

6. 6
   verb

   To travel or stay in the outback

Etymology

From out + back.